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Here's your daily crunch. Slack has always differentiated itself as a communications tool by its ability to run applications inside of Slack and avoid dreaded context switching.

At the Frontier's conference Monday, the company announced a twist on app integrations with

new building blocks, components that developers can build and string together into prepackaged kinds of workflows.

These building blocks put the end user in control, which should make the entire platform more accessible and customizable.

In other news, the Ad Tech Giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is still tracking

teens for ad targeting on its social media platforms.

That's according to new research by Fair Play, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia,

which contradicts Facebook's announcement this summer when the tech Giant claimed it would be limiting how advertisers could reach kids.

In the latest problem for Meta, it's accused of retaining its algorithms abilities to track and target kids, continuing to maintain its AI. its determine which ads they see in order to maximize engagement and boost its ad revenues.

And Pinterest announced a new initiative designed to help the company increase its pace of innovation.

The company is introducing an in-house experimental

products team called 220, named after the address of Pinterest's first office. The team

is comprised of engineers, designers, and other product experts who will research,

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